Sir, April is the month when many diligent, especially senior citizens wait in long queues at Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Office to pay their annual tax mainly to gain 5% rebate. In the past few days, there have seen several letters to the editor requesting online payment. While endorsing their views, I would like to…

Sir, With all eyes on upcoming Lok Sabha elections, it may be noted that unlike previous polling, this time mobile phones will not be allowed inside the polling booths and to avoid last minute glitches, it’s better if voters either leave their mobiles at home or have their own arrangement to keep their phones either…

Sir, With the voting date of Apr.18 LS polls nearing, my interaction with people reveals that many of them are not aware whether their names are in the voters’ list or not. Most of them I suspect do not check and believe that as they voted earlier their names would be in the voters’ list….

Sir, The East running Service Road of Ring Road in Kanakadasanagar near Sa.Ra. Convention Hall has been turned into a parking lane for damaged cars that need to be tended by a car service shop. Apart from the Service Roads on this stretch gaping with open manholes and water drains, these types of encroachments are…

Sir, In the current Reader’s Digest [April] there is an interesting article on Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa, who was known to be a strict disciplinarian and I have heard of one the anecdotes that illustrates this. During my school days in Bangalore in the early 1940s, my father told me of an incident involving the…

Sir, Train number 12613/12614 Mysuru-Bengaluru-Mysuru Tipu Express forms as an important connecting train between the two cities. As the train operates in both directions in the afternoon, there is now an urgent need to provide a new pantry car coach to avail the food/catering services. The two hour-thirty-minute-long non-stop journey causes an inconvenience to avail…

Sir, After clean city competition fever and also the awareness campaigns, there appears to be a perceptible change in the mindset of Mysureans, especially housewives who are actually segregating wet and dry waste at the street-level cart collections by Pourakarmikas. If this trend continues, Mysuru can get back its coveted No.1 clean city title next…

Sir, Paying property tax should be made online with necessary guidelines. These guidelines are a necessity as our tax system is very complex as seen in MCC’s manual tax form used till now. Since the various tax parts in the system are set by the Government, it could be easily programmable with the basic inputs…

Sir, I am a daily commuter to Bengaluru on work, using the Vishwamanava Express (17325/17326). It is amazing that this train starts from Ashokapuram (while on its way to Hubballi via SBC Bengaluru) and stops at Ashokapuram (while on its way from Hubballi via SBC Bengaluru). It is really useful to all the citizens of…

Sir, The recent spate of release of manifestos ahead of the upcoming General Elections is only seen as a move to appease the Opposition parties. The manifestos presented witnesses no real issues being met to appease the end participants, that is the voters. The manifestos remain a mirage only till the announcement of the next…